Chapter

 1 Pre    |    whatever their humane feelings may prompt them to bestow will
 2 Pre    |      science in the island, which may furnish matter for additional
 3 I      |         HIS FAMILY~On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor
 4 I      |        the most facile of tongues may make a slip now and then.~
 5 III    |           under this jargon there may lie concealed the clue to
 6 III    |           very downhearted; for I may confess it to you now, the
 7 IV     |           had given it to me!~You may be sure I felt stirred up.
 8 V      |          A caged lover’s feelings may easily be imagined.~My uncle
 9 V      |  Saknussemm. [1]~ Which bad Latin may be translated thus:~“Descend,
10 V      |           books; incredible as it may seem, he rattled his precious
11 VI     |           I admit that Saknussemm may have written these lines.
12 VI     |  accomplished such a journey? And may it not be that this old
13 VI     |           the kalends of July; he may even have heard the legendary
14 VI     |              Oh, with figures you may prove anything!”~“But is
15 VI     |          if there is central heat may we not thence conclude that
16 VI     |    anything there.”~“And why not? May we not depend upon electric
17 VI     |       phenomena to give us light? May we not even expect light
18 VI     | atmosphere, the pressure of which may render it luminous as we
19 VII    |         this and then many things may take place which will cure
20 VII    |           But it is only the 16th May, and until the end of June —”~“
21 X      |         find in our library and I may perhaps enable you to consult
22 X      |          Snæfell; perhaps even we may pursue our studies in its
23 XI     |          is no telling how far we may go.”~The 14th was wholly
24 XII    |          thirty miles a day.”~“We may; but how about our guide?”~“
25 XIV    |     Snæfell has been dumb; but he may speak again. Now, eruptions
26 XIV    |          the open country, if one may give that name to a vast
27 XIV    |        heavy atmosphere, then you may affirm that no eruption
28 XV     |         recent date. Possibly, it may still be subject to gradual
29 XV     |           is the case, its origin may well be attributed to subterranean
30 XV     |          powers of resistance. It may easily be conceived what
31 XVIII  |         we don’t know how long we may have to go on.”~The biscuit
32 XVIII  |          certain local conditions may modify this rate. Thus at
33 XIX    |       over such easy ground.”~“It may be easy, but it is tiring
34 XIX    |       lava. It is possible that I may be mistaken. But I cannot
35 XX     |       Perhaps even the orb of day may not have been ready yet
36 XXI    |       back on our way to Snæfell. May God give us strength to
37 XXV    |     prison with their tails?”~“It may be, Axel, but they won’t
38 XXV    |         one man has done, another may do.”~“I hope so; but, still,
39 XXV    |          I hope so; but, still, I may be permitted —”~“You shall
40 XXV    |           That’s nothing, and you may get rid of even that by
41 XXVII  |         but whatever little there may be, the eye still catches
42 XXIX   |         hand in my uncle’s, and I may safely say that there was
43 XXIX   |           to lose, for the voyage may be a long one.”~“The voyage!”~“
44 XXX    |           sudden openings.”~“That may be,” I replied; “but if
45 XXX    |          underground regions, why may not some of those monsters
46 XXXI   |         these ridges of foam, you may observe that the sea will
47 XXXI   |           is quite natural.”~“You may say so, uncle; but to me
48 XXXI   |          and tempest-tossed ocean may flow at its ease?”~“Oh,
49 XXXI   |           float?”~“Sometimes that may happen; some of these woods
50 XXXII  |           of creation.~Perhaps we may yet meet with some of those
51 XXXIV  |         This method of getting on may please the Professor, because
52 XXXIV  |        driven through its blowers may be distinctly seen, it must
53 XXXV   |     distance.~The weather — if we may use that term — will change
54 XXXV   |        first shock of the tempest may capsize us in a moment?~“
55 XXXVI  |     DISCUSSIONS~Here I end what I may call my log, happily saved
56 XXXVI  |         of the raft; but still we may get an approximation.”~“
57 XXXVI  |           shore. Surely, Axel, it may vie in size with the Mediterranean
58 XXXVI  |             replied my uncle, “we may easily ascertain this by
59 XXXVII |       fixed physical laws will or may always explain them.~We
60 XXXVIII|      stupendous Golgotha. Any one may now understand the frenzied
61 XXXVIII|        There stands the body! You may see it, touch it. It is
62 XXXVIII|       portions of the upper earth may have fallen. I make no rash
63 XXXIX  |      uncle — come! No human being may with safety dare the anger
64 XXXIX  |          had rather admit that it may have been some animal whose
65 XXXIX  |         of those human beings who may or may not inhabit this
66 XXXIX  |           human beings who may or may not inhabit this inner world.
67 XL     |          and thy fellow-creatures may even now, after the lapse
68 XLII   |            If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant
69 XLII   |            so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be
70 XLII   |          still the chance that we may be burned alive and reduced
71 XLIII  |           beings upon its surface may fancy that all is quiet
72 XLIV   |            whatever mountain this may be,” he said at last, “it
73 XLV    |       their incredulity, and they may believe as much or as little
74 XLV    |           sufficiently understood may tend to modify in places
75 XLV    |        had deservedly won; and he may even boast the distinguished